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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-08-07
He gets farther away from me

He gets farther away from me
every year." said the poor woman.
There was q wild time in Wall
street the first week in July and the
last in June. Alonzo was drafted
among the heavy losers. He had
been living up to concert pitch, and
his partner wired him from New
York that not a red cent would i'm.
pede their view of the poorhouse if
Manhattan fell another point. That
night Manhattan tumbled two points
and the weak Alonzo got into a Chi
nese embroidered silk nightgown,
loaded a deringer, and wrote his
partner few feeble parting remarks.
The watchful old wife had her ea2le
eye on him, and as he disappeared
into the bath room. she raped de-
cisively on the door. Perhaps he To-
terviewed his feelings, as he put his
gun behind him and admitted his old
wife OF his bosom to o momentary
conference.
Things amt SO bad, my dear"
said she; l didn't say anything to
you abous it, but / bought in heavy
when Manhattan was low. At the
turning point | unloaded. | knew
they caught you, but I'm good for
100000. | amt much To look at,
but I've been lucky on the street,
and it's all yours"
She had her great reward. She
was pressed to the bosom of the
white embroidered silk nightgown.
CLARA nEIIE
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-08-07

Tho men OF this decade arc more
or less docayed, said Mrs. Grumps
TO me. "Alonz1 has got him three
China silk night gowns, embroidered
proiuscly on tho collar, pocket,
sleeves and up the front. And she
can remember when ten cent cot
ton torn gown was good enough for
him. Perhaps some people don't
know the sort OF garment torn i'm.
plies. Old.iashioncd shirts we're a
series OF angles and demanded no
scissors. The women folks took
their cotton and tore two squares
that made the body, two oblcpg
pieces those were the sleeves; two
small squares-those wore the gus.
sets that went into the sleeves under
the arms; two little squares-lhey
were filed ia at the top OF the flaps
TO stay them; a straight strip for the
hand, and there you we're. No scis.
sors. just an Incorporating, ug.
ly succession OF acute angles that
You were enabled TO tear.
But Alonzo got through with
trucking" years ago, and his wife
looks on with horror at the Why In
which he catches on TO each new
freak Of fashion. She has not prog.
rossed an inch. Her pieces are torn
In angles, while Alonzo's are scis'
sored 10 the most graceful curves
known TO the style.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-08-07
A. ora Tim. so,,b.,n oY.,o,

ben. Psrley Poors In the Boston Budset. /
William g. Preston, OF South Car.
olina. was the most finished orator
that | have ever heard. Feeble in
frame. aud suffering under an aiIec.
ton OF his lungs, his voice, weak nj
first, would gradually become strong.
or rs he proceeded, and rising with
his sHbject from one burst of clio.
quence to another, still higher aud
higher, he enchanted aud fascinated
his vast audiences by his glowing and
icrvid olnquence. | remember on
one occasion, when he was called 20
speak at Wing convention, he was
AZ first almost inaudiblo, except 10
those Immediately around him.
Some one, eager 60 catch his glowing
words, then incJnsiderately asked
him to raise his voice little higher.
then the mighty spirit of oratory
burst the shacklcs which restrained il
as he exclaimed, Would TO God nv
voice could be heard to the uttermost
confines OF the Republic; il is my
voice, my friends, not my heart, that
fails me" Torrents of the noblest
eloquencc flowed from his inspired
tongue. Watched with the most
anxious solicitude by his attentive
auditory, they several times begged
him 10 iorbear. "One word more"
and the lightning flashes of his
genius but preceded the thunder.
ing OF his elo1ucnce; would space
permit, would despair OF conveying
an idea Of the soul stirring triumph
OF mind over matter. Ho concluded
by an earnest appeal to heayen for
the preservation of the American
Union.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-08-07
The sou. Pa, on On. Lawyer.

Ben. Perley roofe Ia the boston BUDGET. Il
Lssiia COomhe,s great friend of Hen.
~ Gay, and popular stump speaker.
ufed o. tell go1t story about Coun.
sflor HiHeina lie was exceeding y
edrot Ia defending prisoner,
aud woald sometimes a'mesi
lsugh down an indictment for q email
ohense. A fellow Zone SMITH being
on trial Ir Hiealirga Turkey, the
counselor attempted TO give = good
humofed torn g. the affair. "Why,
gentlemen OF the Jury" he said, "thie
IL really y small affair; wonder anv
one would bfins such acomplaint into
curt; i We ara going on az this rate
We shall have business enough on our
bands. Why, | rccolltcl when WAS
AZ college no hinR Was more common
than TO 10 ont iofaging. We did not
get the y lutty too ufien AZ the came
plac' aud there was no hafm done.
no fault iound.n Notwiths'anding
this appeal the jury eonvl1tsd tbs
prisoner. Ailsr the court rose.
one Of the jury, plain
old farmer, meeting The counselor,
complimcnied Lis ingenuity In the
defense. "And now, Squire" raid he,
fixing n kcowinR looS upon him. al
ell luld itc 10 ak you zoe tl,n
which toad do you tske la g,inb IA ,ms
the upper or the lower Yr "Ths
loser" apBweied the cour,elo,
"Well, then, ite no maittr,I onlv
wanted 10 observe that II Won we've
golog my way would jnst log on
b fjre you and lock up my hen
house."
Sword and shield., 1887-05-07
WALTER JONES.

/ was on Mr.. Purser's gallery when
the first shot was fired and immedi-
sateiy came the cry of 20 MURDER ]
ran to the gate, and saw the flashes Of
Sab0ut ten or twelve shots. | could
mot swear whether or not there were
more than two pistols being fired. One
Seemed to be OH the footbrIdge, [this
4 was the approach on which Gambrell
was found and the otner seemed to be
seoming from the street, (which was
aSouth of him) TO the best of my
Knowledge, Immediately liter the
shooting, one man walked up the
street going east, over the bridge, and
Zone more walked west to where the
sboly Law, and began beating him.
shad walked'fr0m the gate to HeapAy's
! store after the last shot, and found
SFigures there and asked him who did
1.-The shooting, and he replied tht he
ibid not know. said ''come on let's &c
aup there.n He said NO we might get
shot ourselves And it was then after
THAT much conversation that the man
walked westward to where the body
Hay and began beating it over the head
with heavy object. | said to Bill
Figures MY God They have killed
the man, and now they are beating
:him all to pieces" After the beating
the man walked off east and the crowd
walked up. WALTER JONES.
Sword and shield., 1887-05-07
VERDICT OF THE JURY.

I'VE the jury of inquest in the cas,
sof the death of Roderick Gambrell, i.nc
] that he came to his death from pi o
] shots and wounds inflicted ny the hal /
sof Jones 5. Hamilton as principal anC
sothers as abetors unknown to the jul,
This is signed by five Of the jury, ,z
g. d. Sidway, L. Kalar, i; ". Fite, }
sM. III. Martin, and II. b. Holiday.
The verdict OF A.C. Van Buren he
sixth juror is as follows i dis eni
Iron the above verdict but agree to he
following: We the jury OF inquest il
the case Of the death Of Roderick Gam
lbrell find that he came to his death from
wounds by pistol in tho hands Of Jones
Is. Hamilton.
Sword and shield., 1887-05-07

Zone had been seen running around tile
WesterTl approach to the bridge, next
Co McDonald's s foundry, and as | was
SgOing home from setting up all night
with Mr., Gambrell, about half past
{ six or seven, there were about six col
Ired persons down towards and di.
fectly Opposite the approach. The,
Awere filling in some earth OH the South
side from where Ganbrell fell took
q position directly south of where / saw
hose flashes, and | observed there was
inite u distance between the South
vest approach and the road bed. |
Hooked TO see If it was possible for any
b0dy to get below and behind the en-
banlxment so as to ambush on the 9TH
s. n side.ef it, and when I.eame East al
! o'cloek this morning, / observed thai
theFe were a good MANY thistles there,
md 1 o kfved them carefully. Itii0oKs
Is If sonle Of them. had been freshly
:hopped with hoe, and as. if othen
had their leaves pressed with the foot.
and these thistles were cut for a dis
tance OF ten ortwelye, steps, clear vi.
IT. where the approach to the bridge
4 comes nearest to the embankment.
) These thistles were under all the
East spans Of the approach, and the
me next to the last had all the thistles
scut under it, and the one next West of
that had the thistles cut for several
feet. Mr. Van Buren,, one of the Jury |
here saht that he and another .JurolI
had examined them and the street.
nands had cut them. This cutting
u the thistles was done, though they
were just then filling in the dirt there
to make the road bed extend Out
sthere. :
Qnes. Did you see any bullet marks
oI the bridge?
Ans. Yes sir, two deep bullet marks.
think they came from the East; the
sirst was about where Gambrell's feet
day, and the otherabout six feet further
East, aud they looked as if they were
snot fired from the same position ex-
sactly.
There were two pools of blood near
together; Gambrell's head was lying
satthe South pool ot blood next to the
spost, and the indentations on the
abriige were there. / could not tell
4 what these indentations were made
with, but they might have been made
with pistol coming down that way.
ANsELM III. JAYNE.
Sword and shield., 1887-05-07
MARcELLUs THOMPSON, col.

j was at home at the time of til,
Akilling of Mr.. Gambrell. | live mex
9doar o,SST. Harry Tavlnr's. on the lef
Sside going down. About ten O'Clock
was going out to cut some wood.
4happened to look over there and hearC
ssofne one cry "nurderp / thought
NSheand three or four different pisto
shots at the same time, and after tina
| saw some one going by in the street
8by the entrance to the postoffice.
During the shooting didn't sci
2anyOne, the iron banisters kept IN,
from seeing anyone, and after the
shooting | only saw one man above
athe bridge. / heard the knocking
zthree licks like a man getting knocked
Gin the head, over where the man came
Sfrom. | first saw the man at the greer
stree at the East end of the bridge, anC
1the last saw Of him he was still going
sup the street.
Question. Did you see Mr.. Gam.
sbrell that evening. AIS. No sir,
zsaW him after the shooting was over
sQuestion. Did you see Mr.. Hamilton
Tor Mr.. Albrecht. No sir, | saw Mr.
sFigures about five minutes after tile
shooting talking to Mr.. Carraway.
Question. Did you see any wagon
coming up this way. No sir, did not
ssee any vehicle until about five OF
seight minutes, then hack come up
ri didn't see any hack before the shoot
sing. If a hack bad passed | guess /
pcould have seen it, | was there some
item minutes.
Question. Are you sure of it. Ans.
Yes sir. Directly after the shooting
land for ten minutes before no hack had
passed. MARcELLus THOMAS.
Sword and shield., 1887-05-07
JANE ANDERSON. (CoL.)

4 live near the post office on the West
Side. couldn't see anybody until
after the shooting. The first pistol
md then another fired, and then a
|naan followed murder three times, and
|bhey began to fire very rapidly.
i did not see any carriage or buggy
for ten minutes before the shotting.
IIt was about ten minutes before any
Thing passed. | was setting where ]
could see, and there was nothing passed
lat all. ] know that.
JANE ANDERSON.
Sword and shield., 1887-05-07
A. ]. DAVIS.

/ know nothing about the killing
On that morning was talking to Gam
|brell and he spoke Of Col. Hamilton
alklng as if the difficulty had beer
lropped.
had a conversation with with Col
Hamilton between Stewards drugstOr,
and Hamilton's grocery store THURSDAY
|uight before the killing. / said
| Hello, Col. what are you doing with |
Walking stick ~ He said Il am go
ing down to meet gentleman, and
got it to kill dog with?" / started t.
reach over and get it and lie pnlleC
pack, and | said "Col. the reason
+aid that, | never saw you with sticE
before.o He held itup and said he go
Il at penitentiary as he came through
A. j. DAVIS.
Sword and shield., 1887-05-07
SAN PuRsER.

4 We were sitting on the gallery when
Nthe first shot Was fired. We heard the
Scry Of murder, ! jumped up and ran tc
Ethe gSSe. The shooting ceased when
1--WE gotIo Mr.. Heaphy,s. Mr.. Figures
awas there trying to get in the door.
nj saw zone man go around by Nc
SDonald's shop under the bridge. ]
acouId not tell whether he was white Ol
sbIack., He ran under the bridge on
athe west side. | saw two mtn goillg
EacrnS9 the bridge from the east side.
4 Mr.. Csrraway was with us and lie
Epicked up the pistol that was lying by
RMr. Gambrelps left side. / had heard
Rthe noise as if some one was beating
Eanother, and the man that did the
sbeating walked back oyer the bridge.
THE two men seemed To be about the
ssame height as near as / could tell.
/ know Mr.. Hamilton, but it was too
Sfar to recognize him. / think the
8fnan struck the floor four times, and
$the head about three our four times.
scould not tell exactly, Mr. Garnbrell
4 WAS lying still.
heard the cry of murder, and took
sit TO be Mr.. Gambrell's voice. | did
hot see any buggy atall. could have
strate the hollow.
Seen buggy, if it had passed. | was
standing on the gallery OF Mr.. Heaphy's
shouse. | did not see either Mr.. Cam
sbrell or Mr.. Hamilton pass by. At the
stin1e the beating was going on there
9were no shots fired, and the second
sparty went across the bridge, and | lost
gsight of him. We thelI came out of
1 the gate and went up to Mrs. Heaphy's
store where Mr.. Figures was trying to|
lget in the door.
Mr.. Jones wa insisting on Mr.. Fig
lures going Vi. there. and Mr.. Figures
would nci 20. Mr.. Jones and ] were
Sword and shield., 1887-05-07
THE SLAUGHTER OF r. d.
GAMBRELL.
Col. Jones Hamilton with Foul
Accessories Hunt Down the
Brave Young Editor Of the
Sword and Shield, and
Surround and Murder
Him in the Night.
New Mississippian:

New NlSSlSSlppla1:
In all the dark and mOurnful history
lof Mississippi's crime, there has never
sheen sadder and more cruel murder,
than that which filled the people OF
this city and State with horror, when
they learned that Roderick Gambrell
had been hemmed up last Thursday
might upon the iron bridge ON Capitol
street by men in front of him, behind
him, and at his side, who first shot
him down to his death, and then after
having turned away, came back and
|as he lay there gasping his life away,
dealt him blow after blow from a
heavy pistol, horribly mangling his
face and crushing in his skull.
After the publication on the 23d OF
last month, in the Sword and Shield
cf an article which we reproduce in
another column of this paper. an
altercatiJh was apprehended between
Col. Hamilton and Mr.. Gambrell, but
as das after day went by and they
passed eaci, other without trouble, and
hlr. Gambrell fina.Iy received meS-
sage from Col. Hamilton through one
Of his confidential advisers, that CO..
Sword and shield., 1887-05-07

OH the gallery and came out of the gate
together. Fitzgerald was along as Mr.
Carraway came up just about the time
| got out of The gate. After we got VI
there Mr.. Albrecht came up from the
East side Of the bridge, and didn't SEE
my one with him. SAM pURsER.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1887-04-16
Where the Best Lobsters Are Taken.

The best Holsters in the world are taken of Monhegan in the winter. They thrive better in the deep water out to sea than on the shores Of the bays, where most of the Maine lobster men set their traps. The Monhegan fisherman are getting splendid prices for their Holsters this winter-$10 to S1O.5O per hundred. Think of that you people who think you pay high prices for Holsters. The jobber and the retailer have to make profits on these figures. But you probably do not get a taste of the big Monhegan lobster, but eat shell fish which are caught at Bristol or Boothbay, or some where along there, for which S7.5O per hundred is paid. The Monhegan Holsters are shipped to New York and Boston. I saw 10000 of them in car in Portland harbor the other day. The Holsters arc kept alive in these great cars, tied to the docks, from the time they are taken out of the smacks till they can be shipped. A lobster-cal looks like cattle car lattened out It is huge box sufficiently open to lei the water in and keep the Holsters in Lobsters are sociable fellows. It i; sport to see them rub each other backs and embrace each other, as i bidding their good-bys, when they. arr dipped out of the car and leave theil brine for good. They squirm as if the. had premonitions of hot water.-Lesots ton (Afe.) JouraGL
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1887-04-16
A Ribnitz Inn.

On large, deserted square a ram bling inn threw open its hospitable doors and welcomed us as if we were the one party in the world the host had been looking for since the inn was opened. The storm was not so severe but we could straggle around the town Tn the evening and explore the dimly lighted streets. The sultry air, scarce ly cooled by the rain, made the interior oppressive, so we wandered around as well as we could and then sought our quarters. We found that the rooms had been prepared for us with careful attention. Everything was neat and fresh and comfortable. In about five minutes after retiring to our respective chambers we all appeared ln the hall way again, in various stages Of un- dress, clamoring for the servant. A blushing chambermaid soon appeared, and was shown in turn the three couch es, each with a mountainous feather bed coverlet incased in a sack of white | linen. Explanations and expostula- tions were of no avail. She could not | understand the cause of our complaint, but insisted on the purity of the home spun linen and the softness and light ness of the feather-bed coverlet. At l last the whole household was aroused, and after great difficulty the proprietor was made to conceive the fact that we could not sleep that sultry August night under feather-bed which would have sufocated us in midwinter. After ear nest declarations that all Ribnitz people slept under one feather-bed in summer and under two in winter, he was obig, ed to confess that there had never beer call for upper sheets and blankets 1T his house, and he had none. We, as { last resort, emptied the feather-bed ou
 of its sack and used this as a sheet
 But for the perambulating watchmen
 who made night noisy with their unin
 telligible hourly cries, we would have slept soundly. Magazine.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1887-04-16
Joe Jefferson,s Sons.

With Joe Jefferson the name will die so far as great histrionic talent goes. His sons are worthy young men of good business talents, but without the re- motest histrionic instinct within them. They are now engaged in managing the drama called "TEe Shadows of a Great City," and it was MT. Joe Jefferson who put them in the way of producing this enormously successful melodrama, of which he himself is practically the author.
 The old gentleman saw the day wan ing and began to recognize that the time was coming when he would no longer be able to give his sons part of his large profits, for of late years he had constituted them his managers in place of intrusting the berth to strang- ers. Thus he kept the profits in the family, which was perfectly proper. But more than this was needed for two active and intelligent young men. The fathers theatrical season has of late only extended to twenty weeks in the season. From desire to give them something to do for the remainder of the time he determined to try his hand at play-writing-something he had nev- CT in his long career attempted before, saw very poor melodramas bought in England at enormous prices, and he believed he could at least do as well as that. So the old gentleman set him. self to work, and he managed to evolve some of the most startling scenes that have ever been put upon the stage. Still he did not feel sufficient confidence in his efforts to trust himself alone in the production, and he hired Mir Lew R. Shewell to put the play together, cheerfully abandoning all claims to the authorship. Starting his sons with the scenery of the play, and a sum sufh cient to give the play good start. h' awaited developments. These answer ed his most sanguine expectations, anc the result has been that his sons hav' made great deal of money.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1887-04-16
When Russia Was a Republic.

The Cossacks of Little Russia" in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, were governed by a president called the Koshevoi, whose election, however, instead of occurring at stated inter- vals, took place whenever his predeces- sor was killed in battle, or deposed by the popular vote if he failed to give satisfaction. The Koshevoi's election and inauguration formed one cere- mony, the details of which were char acteristically primitive. When the claims of two candidates appeared toll erably equal, the question was decided by free fight" between the respee- tive parties. The president-elect was presented with heavy club as a sym bol of power. and then raised upon g shield above the heads of his followers in token of his official exultation. The inauguration was then completed by smearing his face with mud, which the elder warriors carefully wiped of again, contrary to the practice of mod ern communities which, although stil proas to throw dirt at their rulers, ar' much more apt to rub it in.